Per gets down and dirty with a new chapter in the Documentation called Dirty Records. Really it’s all about tracking change to your database records dynamically.
Give it a read and learn about the power of methods like hasChanged(), XXXHasChanged(), XXXChangedFrom(), changedProperties(), allChanges(), and more.
We’ve released ColdFusion on Wheels 0.9.2 into the wild this evening. No new features really, but quite a few bug fixes.
Download version 0.9.2 and bring your Wheels app that much closer to 1.0. (We’re getting really close.)
We have 2 new chapters and 1 updated chapter in the Documentation.
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Robert Burns was pretty quick at adding Wheels to his CFML Framework Skeletons plugin for Eclipse after we released version 1.0. Read the rest of this entry »
We’ve just released ColdFusion on Wheels version 0.9.4 today on CFWheels.org. Thanks to Per Djurner, Tony Petruzzi, and James Gibson for contributing new features and improving the stability of the framework. And thanks to the community for feedback and supporting our efforts. Our presence is really starting to grow.
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This blog has been a little quiet lately, but believe me that plenty has been going on behind the scenes.
We’ve released a new section on our site for Screencasts. I’ve started a series on building a fake social networking site, and the first 2 episodes are there:
The documentation now contains a section that documents all public functions in the Wheels API. You can now browse an complete list of the functions or browse by category.
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As a follow-up to the Hello World tutorial, we’ve just released a tutorial called Hello Database.
As its name suggests, the point of this new tutorial is to help you get a jump start on learning about Wheels’s ORM functionality. This is not an exhaustive walk-through but rather a taste so you can dip your toe into the pool.
If you’ve been on the fence on whether you’d like to try ColdFusion on Wheels, give the tutorial a read.
I would like a couple hat-tips to Sean Corfield for mentioning Wheels in his blog entry about Hal Helms leaving CFML.
And to ColdFusion Open-Source Update by Brian Rinaldi who regularly mentions Wheels along with all sorts of other CF Open Source news.
Finally, Thanks to Ben Forta, yes Mr. ColdFusion himself. He mentions Wheels 1.0 Release. Read the rest of this entry »
Wheels matures a little more with version 0.9.3. Download it today.
For those of you upgrading from Wheels 0.9.2, the most that you’ll probably need to do is delete the wheels folder from your install and replace it with the new wheels folder. Voila!
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